Empire and Imperialism: Europe. Few subjects have generated as much controversy as that of European imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Because of the term's pejorative connotations, even attempting to define it causes difficulties.
Edmund Burke. From Conservapedia. Edmund Burke (born January 12, 1729 in Dublin, died July 9, 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, an orator, and a leading conservative political theorist who is still widely read and continue to shape conservative attitudes.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, the legal philosopher and judge. whom Richard Posner has, with admiration, dubbed âthe. American Nietzsche,â 1 established in the minds of many peo-. ple a certain image of what natural law theories are theories of, and a certain set of reasons for supposing that such theories are.